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Pushing the envelope one step further is what the designer describes as the "captain of the universe" home office. Separated from the living room by a unique room divider of chicken wire over mirrored safety glass—"It's meant to look old and antique," says Delrose—the former den was retrofitted to accommodate three computer screens, a TV and a custom cerused-oak desk with inlaid gray kid-leather blotters. "Everything in the room is wired to death," says the designer. "You push a button and out pops a fax machine."

Completing the main-floor renovation is the family room, which was designed with the needs of three growing boys in mind. Located next to the kitchen, it's the real hub of the house. "There are no TVs or computers in the bedrooms, so this is where they live," Delrose says about the space, which includes all the necessary entertainment components. "The seat cushions on the sofa are washed denim so they can stand up to anything—even wet bathing suits."

‘I didn’t want riding prints on the walls, but I didn’t want a super-modern interior, either,’ says the homeowner. ‘I wanted something livable.’

Throughout the first floor, Delrose established a simple color scheme of blues (his client's favorite color) and greens in response to the lush, verdant surroundings. In the living room, dark-green velvet chairs play off the light-green cotton sofa; the walls are covered with grass cloth in a hyacinth tone. "Wallpaper adds dimension and texture to a room and we ended up going from no wallpaper to using it everywhere," says Delrose, pointing to the dining room, where a taupe quilted leather tops a wainscot of blue-gray paint. The latter was selected to work with a similarly colored woven fabric on the dining room chairs.

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For his private quarters, the homeowner wanted lots of luxury, and his request for a spa bath was answered with a Jacuzzi tub, steam shower, marble walls and a mahogany vanity with back-painted gray glass drawers. Plans are currently in the works for redesigning the master bedroom and the kitchen, but for now, says Delrose, the transition is just what his client wanted. "It's still a Greenwich house," he says, "but a little hipper."